What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Scientist position at MARKETview?
MARKETview Education Partners is seeking bright, talented, and motivated individuals to join our data and analytics team. These individuals will be critical contributors to a fast-growing, early-stage education technology business and will have the unique benefit of joining a supportive team of experienced professionals on the ground level.
This role will serve colleges and universities with data science and modeling that help them better understand their position and control their destiny in a rapidly changing higher education marketplace.
Responsibilities:
- Owner of internal packages, modeling pipelines, and general data science infrastructure / products.
- Leads creation, delivery, explanation, and diagnosis of predictive models for external clients. Talk through implications of modeling output and proposed actions with internal teams.
- Develops roadmap in machine learning application and development.
- Optimizes the efficiency and strategy of existing modeling techniques.
- Relays insights to non-technical members of the team to inform business decisions and investment.
Minimum Requirements:
- Five years’ experience in a role involving analytics and programming.
- Proficiency with predictive modeling workflows in Python.
- Advanced SQL skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computational mathematics, or similar.
- Familiar with linear and tree-based modeling techniques and underlying methodologies and mathematical foundation.
- Experience with model implementation techniques to host inference pipelines in batch processes.
- Experience with notebooks and implementation of models in a cloud environment (Azure preferred).
- Experience with a variety of data sources including data lakes and SQL server.
- Familiarity with public code repositories (github, gitlab, etc.) showing a history of projects or contributions in open source, academia, or professional settings.
Bonus Points:
- Experience working in higher education.
Why MARKETview Education Partners?
The MARKETview team is united by a common passion to increase higher education access while improving the performance of colleges and universities and the educational outcomes for students and families. This is the spirit that drives every client partner relationship, as we serve the mission of each with an unwavering commitment to their goals and success. We are looking for equally passionate team members with a similar disposition and willingness to put the success of others – partners and teammates – before their own. If this is you, you’ll fit right in.
Job Type: Full-time, on-site
Location: Richmond, VA
Equal Opportunity:
MARKETview is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment for our employees and do not discriminate based on any status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship for a work visa, both currently and in the future.